Harriman Institute announces new endowment, professorship

NEW YORK - The Harriman Institute at Columbia University has announced the creation of a new endowment fund and the appointment of a visiting professor of Ukrainian studies.

The Volodymyr O. and Lydia Z. Bazarko Fellowship is intended for students interested in Ukrainian studies; the first award will be made in fall 1999.

The Harriman Institute sponsors and organizers numerous conferences, courses, and events dealing with Ukraine. Thanks to the generosity of the Bazarko family, the Harriman Institute can again reaffirm its commitment to Ukrainian studies at Columbia University. For further information, contact Frank Bohdan: telephone, (212) 854-6217; e-mail, [email protected].

Frank Sysyn has been appointed as the first Petro Jacyk Visiting Professor of Ukrainian Studies at Columbia University. Prof. Sysyn is the director of the Petro Jacyk Center for Ukrainian Historical Research, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta.

Among his published works are "Between Poland and the Ukraine: The Dilemma of Adam Kysil, 1600-1653" (Cambridge, Mass.: Ukrainian Research Institute, 1985), and numerous articles in European and American scholarly journals.

While at Columbia he will be teaching a course titled "Problems in Modern Ukrainian History." Prof. Sysyn's course will examine the evolution of Ukrainian identity, culture and political aspirations, placed in the context of the states that ruled Ukrainian lands and the diverse populations and non-Ukrainian cultures and political movements on these territories.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, January 10, 1999, No. 2, Vol. LXVII

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